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alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Do we just vote in thread?

Not sure how much you want to minmax but if you do...

> Mining Satellites (not Research yet), though maybe hold off until you get Prosperity if you're playing with Utopia, with a colony soon after

> Ideally should be running the fleet around split into 3 to scout for systems with habitable planets and survey there first

Research wise:
Improved Spaceport (Coilgun isn't important until we're at fleet cap, and we can get it from wreckage)
Planetary Unification
Field Modulation

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alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Keep 'em. Not worth the influence to replace him.

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Grab the opener for Prosperity (cheaper mining stations), then get Private Colony Ships (so we can use energy to expand), then start and complete Expansion.

Optionally get the Discovery opener along the way somewhere for the cheaper research stations.

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Changing my vote to Expansion if we can't do the Prosperity opener and Private Colony Ships into Expansion.

alcaras fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Jun 1, 2017

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Oh we can split tradition trees after all?

Open Prosperity then, we'll go for Private Colony Ships then come back to Expansion.

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Colonize Anreya II

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
A New Life

We should also rival our evangelizing zealot neighbors -- they will likely not be friends with anyone bar us and others will be nicer to us since we rivaled them. And it'll give us some influence to boot.

alcaras fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jun 15, 2017

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere

Kanthulhu posted:

Food and ships. That's what we need. More farms home and more ships in the sky.

This.

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Courier Network

War: Conquest and annexation.

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
We're not going for annexation?

Or at least vassalization?

I don't think I've ever made a tributary in Stellaris before... is that new with a recent patch? Not sure as to the benefits, especially this early in a game.

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere

Pyroi posted:

We'll get a big chunk of their production, but they won't join in on wars like Vassals do.

Why not just annex them?

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Mastery of Nature

For if we cannot master Nature, then how can we claim dominion over the apple of Nature's eye: the sapient species of the galaxy?

Let us therefore embark upon first mastering Nature, and then, only then, with Nature well in hand, shall we begin the arduous journey that will inevitably bring us to galactic domination.

(as seen in propaganda distributed by the United Free Peoples of Earth (and Associated Systems) Party for Advancing Our Amazing Space Empire)

alcaras fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Jul 7, 2017

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Advanced Spaceports

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere

Prosperity

alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Trans-Stellar Corporations

Cruisers

e: Changed from Standard Construction Templates to Trans-Stellar Corporations.

alcaras fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Sep 25, 2017

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alcaras
Oct 3, 2013

noli timere
Persuaded by bagual, whose words hold promise of an energy-boom fueled expansion of the human race, I have instructed my delegate to the assembly to vote for Trans-Stellar Corporations instead. We would do well to heed his wisdom, however caustically expressed, for is it not written, "From the mouths of babes..."

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